The increased use of mobile technology in the medical profession brings an increased risk of privacy and data security breaches. Bloomberg BNA's The Proliferation of Mobile Devices and Apps for Health Care: Promises and Risks report includes actionable compliance recommendations and helps you understand the liabilities for doctors, app developers and the businesses they work with.

For the first year of the Pioneer ACO Model, more then 669,000 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries were attributed to the 32 Pioneer ACOs. The financial results were generally positive, but inconsistent, across the ACOs.

Richard Averill, senior vice president of clinical and economic research at 3M Health Information Systems, talks about the reason for things like macaw-related codes and why ICD-10 is just like any other dictionary.

The American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association sent a joint letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius last week asking for greater flexibility in the requirements of the meaningful-use (MU) program.

U.S. News and World Report has just released its annual list of “Best Hospitals,” and websites are being updated to celebrate victories. (Johns Hopkins ranks No. 1!) Magazines will be plump with advertising. But what does this annual exercise mean for patients? And what does it say about American healthcare?

A group of industry lobbyists and privacy rights advocates voiced support last Thursday for new voluntary guidelines for mobile apps that should make it easier for consumers to know what personal information is getting sucked from their smartphone or tablet and passed along to marketers.

Complementary and alternative medicine – a term that encompasses meditation, acupuncture, chiropractic care and homeopathic treatment, among other things – has become increasingly popular. About four in 10 adults (and one in nine children) in the U.S. are using some form of alternative medicine, according to the National Institutes of Health. And with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the field could make even more headway in the mainstream health care system.

Getting health coverage through Obama law not as easy as shopping on Travelocity or Amazon

You may have heard that shopping for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul will be like using Travelocity or Amazon. But many people will end up with something more mundane than online shopping, like a call to the help desk.

A technique published in the journal Genome Biology showed that differences in the tiny fragments of genetic material floating in the blood could be used to identify Alzheimer's patients. The test was accurate 93 percent of the time in trials on 202 people.

Physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with normal brain function, according to a research team based at Princeton University. These findings potentially resolve a discrepancy in research related to the effect of exercise on the brain – namely that exercise reduces anxiety while also promoting the growth of new neurons in the ventral hippocampus.

It's been said that there are three types of people in the world: the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. The same could be said for organizations, particularly in healthcare. There are hospitals that will cling to the ways of the past. There are also organizations that will settle as they are, resisting major change, surviving rather than excelling. Then there are the progressive ones.